[email protected] wrote:
> For programs that produce real output (slapcat, ldapsearch) this might 
> be true, but for those that don't (slapadd, slapd) I totally disagree. 
> Stderr is for errors, not chatty progress or debug messages. I always 
> hate it when the error messages gets burried in lots of noice.
> 
> My preference is to have progress and debug messages on stdout, enabled 
> by options or at least possible to disable by options.  Real output must 
> be possible to send to a file specified as argument, to separate it from 
> the progress and debug noice.  Stderr is for error messages, and 
> possibly out-of-band messages.

+1

Ciao, Michael.


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